Creativity

                  Powerful art often comes about as a result of collaboration. New media is almost entirely about collaboration: It facilitates nearly infinite dyads of cooperation, letting people work together in whole new way. YouTube mashups are a primitive example (Barnes, 2007). They let people blend together videos in order to create humorous effects or parodies. This is not new, of course. The Internet has always had such parodies in GIF, Flash or other forms. But what Youtube has allowed is the mass creation with ease of these kinds of mashups. With a simple video editor, one can make all sorts of content. In the future, this content will increase in complexity and artistic value. The present state of the remixed video is likely similar to the very beginnings of moving pictures. The Citizen Kane of YouTube is still probably around the corner.